The Witcher 4 will, of course, have romance options again – and they're supposed to be "super compelling and very meaningful."
The Witcher 4 has been highly anticipated for years now, and the first look we got at The Game Awards hyped fans up like a good old game of Gwent.
Ciri is going to take center stage in the upcoming adventure (no release date yet, sorry!) and the devs already spilled some juicy details about her journey.
Ciri's romances – compelling and meaningful
Geralt's romantic endeavours have been discussed time and time again, and it seems like most people have strong opinions about the Witcher's preferences – just ask in a room full of gamers like you and me "Yennefer or Triss?" and watch the world burn.
And Ciri? Ciri's no nun, either. In a recent interview, Sebastian Kalemba – game director on The Witcher 4 – spoke about the new relationships for Ciri, confirming what we all hoped. Will there be romances for her as well?
Absolutely. It's a part of the way we make games. It is a part of human nature. It's a very normal thing. Without that I think we wouldn't be able to tell the very full story.
For those of us easily falling for fictional characters, that's great news (me. I'm talking about myself here – drop it in the comments if you can relate!).
But as always, we want to pay a lot of attention to it and make it super compelling and very meaningful. So it's not just to make a romance for the sake of making a romance. That's not the CDPR way.
And this is even better – who else is ready for a new in-game romance that feels more real than it should? Baldur's Gate 3 did it right, and we sure hope The Witcher 4 can do something similar – make us feel for companions, NPCs and potential love interests.
It remains unknown so far who we're making eyes at or how many different options there are – we're pretty sure we'll get both men and women, though. And before anybody calls that "woke": Ciri had a girlfriend in the books, and she also can make it clear she "prefers women" back in The Witcher 3, so that's not a new development just to make Ciri fit into popular tropes of today's time.
What do you hope for The Witcher 4? Anything else you'd love to see in the game? Let us know in the comments!